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  1. embramike on

    Estadio on 9 August, 2012 at 20:30 said:

     

     

    I used to smoke that stuff too, many Pink Floyd albums ago …

     

     

    HH

  2. MurdochauldandHay on

    Off topic Anyone remember BRHT’s post a few weeks ago about the Irish priest who trains the kenyan athletic team? well one of those he trained David Rushida has just gone and won the Gold medal in tonights 800m breaking the world record in the process what an achievement for Ravid Rushida and his coach

     

     

    They have the men’s 800m world record holder, the women’s 5,000m world champion and last year they had all 20 of the fastest marathon runners in the world. It is no wonder that just four words strike fear into every other distance runner at athletics meets: the Kenyans are coming.

     

     

    Although the formidable Kenya athletics team has had a slow start by its standards, gold medal hopes remain in nearly every distance event. Tonight, the 800m world record holder David Rudisha will run for his place in the 800m final – an event in which he holds five of the 10 fastest times in history.

     

     

    The rise of the east African nation as a global athletics powerhouse is one of the most unlikely stories in modern sport and the secret behind its success lies in a small village, in the Rift Valley, where a 63-year-old Irish priest has mentored champion after champion.

     

     

    Rudisha, 23, is only the latest in a long line of world beaters who have trained in the village of Iten, the Mecca of running, under the guidance of Brother Colm O’Connell, a Catholic missionary turned inspirational coach.

     

     

    Mo Farah, who won a gold medal in the 10,000 metres on Saturday night, and marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe both trained at Iten in the run-up to London 2012.

     

     

    Brother O’Connell arrived in Iten, 2,400 metres above sea level in the Rift Valley, in 1976, to teach geography on a three-year contract. Thirty-five years later he is still there. In that time he has mentored 25 world champions and four Olympic gold medallists, acquiring what he calls a “sixth sense” for the sport. An estimated 800 to 1,000 runners live and train in the Iten area. The facilities are basic and diet Spartan but runners from all over the world come to the village. Last winter Mo Farah went to train at Iten. Three days ago he won gold.

     

     

    The Kenyan squad was so fond of its high-altitude training that Athletics Kenya refused to send their runners to the team’s training camp in Bristol ahead of the Games. “The whole world is coming to Kenya to train in long and middle-distance races,” Athletics Kenya’s chairman Isaiah Kiplagat said. “Why would we take our team to Bristol?”

     

     

    In the Rift Valley, running is a way of life and years of training at high altitude hugely increase the blood’s efficiency in carrying oxygen. To be a runner is a ticket out of poverty for some and those growing up in the Rift Valley are not short of role models.

     

     

    The team’s former Olympic captain and 800m gold medallist in Beijing, Wilfred Bungei, has retired, but tips his countrymen for success in London. Bungei believes Kenya’s domination in long distances came by accident. “Sprinting talents scouts went to Jamaica and West Africa so Kenyans were forced to try long distances and it worked,” he says. “Children have been emulating the older athletes. Children say, ‘I can be a great like athlete like Bungei’ and they start training.”

     

     

    “I’ve always concentrated on the development of young athletes,” Brother O’Connell said when The Independent met him in Iten earlier this year. “That’s where the Kenyan supply line comes from. I’ve not really moved up the line and ignored the youngsters.”

     

     

    The formula appears to be working. Kenya was the most successful African nation in Beijing f our years ago, winning six gold, four silver and four bronze medals – all in distance running events. In London, Ezekiel Kemboi has already taken gold in the 3,000m steeplechase and the total medal haul is expected to grow.

     

     

    What’s for breakfast?: Kenya vs Phelps

     

     

    A Kenyan runner’s breakfast

     

     

    Ugali (maize, water, salt)

     

     

    Michael Phelps’ breakfast

     

     

    Three fried-egg sandwiches topped with cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, fried onions and mayo

     

     

    A five-egg omelette.

     

     

    Three chocolate-chip pancakes

     

     

    Three slices of French toast dusted with sugar

     

     

    A bowl of grits (maize porridge)

     

     

    Two cups of coffee

  3. PeteTheBeat on

    Estadio

     

     

    I applied and got tickets for the dressage in the Olympics. Not only was there no charge but there was also a payment of £200 into my account.

     

     

    Makes sense – you’d have to pay me to watch that **** :-)

  4. Estadio on

    PeteTheBeat

     

     

    Crufts wae jockeys! – Another plan of mine.

     

     

    I hear they get points for how well they applied their lipstick! :-)

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

    Estadio

  7. PeteTheBeat on

    What about combining the shooting with the dressage? No firing at the horses though. The riders would have to take their chances.

  9. 'crushed nuts?' 'Naw, Layringitis!' on

    MurdochauldandHay on 9 August, 2012 at 20:45 said:

     

    Michael Phelps’ breakfast

     

     

    Three fried-egg sandwiches topped with cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, fried onions and mayo

     

     

    A five-egg omelette.

     

     

    Three chocolate-chip pancakes

     

     

    Three slices of French toast dusted with sugar

     

     

    A bowl of grits (maize porridge)

     

     

    Two cups of coffee

     

     

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    Wouldn’t want to empty his chanty! ;))

  10. sipsini on

    Brt&h, enjoyed reading your post again.best boxing dvd iv had the pleasure to watch is the fabulous 4,the best of the fights between sugar ray,hearns,hagler and duran. awsome.hh

  12. gordybhoy64 on

    Nay wonder,

     

    i wish he would run to the line,could set some times that

     

    may never be beat

  14. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    This is the first night I have sat down to watch the Olympics all night ……. Absolutely fantasic

     

     

    The remembrance of the black power athletes was inspiring……. True heroes…..

     

     

    Big race coming up. 200 metres final …. Very exciting…..but not nearly as exciting as approaching Celtic Park

  15. Ten Men Won The League on

    Awe Naw

     

     

    The fact that we have a better squad than all of our possible opponents. It would be embarrassing to get knocked out by any of the teams we could face

     

     

    ASonOfDan

     

     

    I heard we are getting about £1.5 million for the Real Madrid game

     

     

    That’s Madrid’s fee. Ours is circa a third of that

  16. Estadio on

    Bolt does it slowing down! Get your dosh on a 200 world record later this year when big money will on the line for the man who does it!

     

     

    Jamaican 1-2-3.

     

     

    sipsini

     

     

    If you get a chance I recommend ‘four kings’ by George Kimball.

     

     

    A marvellous account of a unique and complex rivalry that may just have saved boxing from a descent into irrelevance.

     

     

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3977220-four-kings

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

    Estadio

  18. wonkyradar on

    Sir Minty has passed his Order No.227 “Not a step back!” Big Eck and wee Sneaky et al are jumping onboard HMS Defiance. I still can’t believe Big daft Eck and his “They shall not pass” speech the other day. Whit a tit! Him, his wife and their Bichon Frisé will form a Maginot Line at the front door when the authorities come a knocking for his tainted medals- Awake iron! Molon labe “Come and take them”…he’ll probably chain himself naked to the medals cabinet in the living room…”They no take ma medals! Ower ma deid boady! I’ll give you my medals when you peel them from my cold, dead hands!”

  19. Billy Bhoy on

    I hear that the Somali Olympic Team have just issued an apology as they didn’t realise that sailing and shooting were separate events!

  20. Celtic Mac on

    Paul67 et al

     

     

    One, two, three for Jamaica in the 200 metres, in London of all places. Fantastic! Who says lightning doesn’t strike twice?

  21. Estadio on

    Billy Bhoy

     

     

    Got a text yesterday that said.

     

     

    “First sailing results are in. Britain take Gold, USA take silver and Somalia have taken a middle aged couple from Weymouth”!

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

    Estadio

  23. PeteTheBeat on

    I worried needlessly on Monday about not being able to transfer my spare ticket for the athletics. My friend’s 70 year old father used it and had a great time.

     

     

    I went along on Tuesday evening. It was a wonderful experience but if somebody offered me another ticket I would have said ‘No thanks, done that’.

     

     

    A lot of events had to be followed on the big screens given the size of the stadium. You had no idea otherwise if somebody’s long jump was good or not.

     

     

    The atmosphere was very friendly but it lacked that edge that you get at a big soccer or rugby match. Summed up by the queues at the coffee bars were longer than those serving alcohol !. I was tempted to sing ‘You’re s*** and you know you are !” at the discus throwers but thought better of it.

     

     

    I had a couple of beers with a Canadian guy and we wanted to have our own race on the track afterwards but again it was not to be.

     

     

    Still again, it was a great evening. it was great to go through my photos tonight and see a few good ones of the young Kenyan 800m runner (he was in the semi finals on Tuesday) and though I don’t particularly like Seb Coe, he’s done a fantastic job.

     

     

    Normal British standards were upheld, though, when the tube broke down 3 stops further down the District line!

  24. Bookies Pen for a Button on a Blazer on

    wonkyradar on 9 August, 2012 at 21:07

     

     

    :)

     

     

    ” …peel them from my cold, dead hands!”

     

    Or he’ll hand them over once he’s seen the warrant from the sheriff officers. :)

     

     

    Book

  25. 'crushed nuts?' 'Naw, Layringitis!' on

    Celtic Mac on 9 August, 2012 at 21:11 said:

     

    Paul67 et al

     

     

    One, two, three for Jamaica in the 200 metres, in London of all places. Fantastic! Who says lightning doesn’t strike twice?

     

     

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    No-one who has been struck by lighting! It’s yer actual fact that if lighting strikes somewhere then it’s very likely that it’ll strike there again.

     

    That’s why you shouldn’t stand under trees, fly kites or tit about with golf umbrellas during a thunderstorm. ;))

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  27. Billy Bhoy on

    Estadio,

     

    it’s a photo finish but your joke gets the Gold. I’ll settle for Silver.

     

    Hail Hail !

  29. PeteTheBeat on

    Michael Johnson is more authoritative than all the football commentators put together.

  30. Estadio on

    And as for the 800 metres!!

     

     

    David Rudisha with a world record is only 25……but…….the lads, Nijel Amos and Timothy Kitum who came second and third just a couple of blinks behind are only 18 and 17 years old.

     

     

    Imagine their potential. It may not be long till we see a sub 1:40 time achieved.

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

    Estadio

  31. Majestic Hartson on

    Anyone got a link to the radio commentary of the maribor goal v the bad yins from last year. I think it was real radion was followed by silence.

     

     

    Was trying to let Bhoys at work hear it today for a laugh.

     

     

    Thanks in advance.

  33. 'crushed nuts?' 'Naw, Layringitis!' on

    PeteTheBeat on 9 August, 2012 at 21:21 said:

     

    Michael Johnson is more authoritative than all the football commentators put together.

     

     

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    He watches tjhe person who is speaking, doesn’t interupt and replies to their point, a complete professional. Lineker, Shearer et al are like kids on a sugar high by comparism.

  35. DJBEE on

    Dear mr Macleish

     

     

    We do not want your medals back as they do not now represent an accomplishment, all they mean is a nod to cheating and tax avoidance, you can wear them with pride or pass them on to someone else. You may want to melt them down and use them for fishing weights that way they will be useful for something although they may get stuck in a swans throat which would not be nice. Whatever you decide to do with them there will be no need for right handers.

  36. blantyretim on

    Estadio

     

    I’m sure you will run a sub 1.40 when you get the go aheqad to return to sharkeys next month….

     

    and you being older than those 3 put together…

  37. wonkyradar on

    PeteTheBeat on 9 August, 2012 at 21:21 said:

     

    Michael Johnson is more authoritative than all the football commentators put together.

     

     

     

    It sounds like hot steaming oxtail soup with the bubbles coming to the surface to pop…then suddenly releasing the combined voice of Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones…”He is a Legend now.” His voice is the ultimate authoritative stamp of approval. Like Jehovah’s thumb print on the letter of fate.

  42. wonkyradar on

    Is it just me or is there something unseemly about watching “women” punch each others lights out?

     

     

    Yes I know its not PC. But I just detest women’s boxing. Horrible…uuuugggghhhh!

     

     

    Just saying like- back to lurking for me.

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